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Monday, May 16, 2011

The very hungry Caterpillar: Life cycle of Butterfly art

Book

We created paintings to go along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and talked about the life cycle of butterfly. This is a wonderful story of a caterpillar who emerges from an egg and transforms to a beautiful butterfly. The four stage metamorphosis of the butterfly explained in an adorable way. The book is a real classic covering the days of the week and counting aspects too

Craft

After the mother's day stamping fun, we are exploring different materials for stamping. This time we used egg cartons and a round sponge for stamping.

For the night sky, dip Scotch brite sponge in blue paint and make random strokes to cover the whole sheet(you can also use the round sponge). We prefer to use sponge while painting bigger surfaces(as we had done for the Underwater scene).

For the moon, dip a round sponge in paint and Stamp the moon. CJ loves to add facial features. She made a smiley face.

Paint the tree and the leaves. Finally using a q-tip, add the egg on the leaf.

Stage 2:

Sun came up and Pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar

Outline the wings of the butterfly on the egg carton lid as shown above. Cut along the outline to get the shape of the butterfly. Butterfly stamp ready!

Pour paint in the container. Dip the flat side of the butterfly stamp and print on the paper(as shown below)

Using different colors, stamp again on the butterfly wings to get multicolor.

When dry, paint the body of the butterfly. Using single egg carton, Stamp the head of the butterfly. When dry add the details of the butterfly, eyes, antennae, legs. Using the single egg carton, we painted polka dots on the wings. Colorful butterfly flapping its wings!

CJ arranged the paintings and she read the hungry caterpillar book to her dad. Daddy was very much impressed by her play.

22 comments:

I am working on a caterpillar/butterfly theme as well. This is the time of year for such fun! :)

I am following you from ABC&123 and wanted to let you know that I have a Showcase Sunday Linky Party for kids crafts & activities & would love for you to stop by and link up some of your fabulous ideas this coming Sunday.

Esther, this is totally beautiful. I love how you used so many stamping methods to create these lovely illustrations to go with the book. Especially loved the egg carton stamps to make the caterpillar!